SAN FRANCISCO: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI is moving into the voice assistant enterprise and displaying off new know-how that may clone an individual’s voice, however says it will not but launch it publicly as a result of security considerations.

The unreal intelligence firm unveiled its new Voice Engine know-how Friday, simply over per week after submitting a trademark utility for the identify. The corporate claims that it might probably recreate an individual’s voice with simply 15 seconds of recording of that particular person speaking.

OpenAI says it plans to preview it with early testers “however not extensively launch this know-how at the moment” due to the risks of misuse.

“We acknowledge that producing speech that resembles individuals’s voices has critical dangers, that are particularly prime of thoughts in an election 12 months,” the San Francisco firm stated in a press release.

In New Hampshire, authorities are investigating robocalls despatched to 1000’s of voters simply earlier than the presidential major that featured an AI-generated voice mimicking President Joe Biden.

Plenty of startup corporations already promote voice-cloning know-how, a few of which is accessible to the general public or for choose enterprise clients comparable to leisure studios.

OpenAI says early Voice Engine testers have agreed to not impersonate an individual with out their consent and to reveal that the voices are AI-generated. The corporate, greatest recognized for its chatbot and the image-generator DALL-E, took an identical strategy in asserting however not extensively releasing its video-generator Sora.

Nevertheless a trademark utility filed on March 19 reveals that OpenAI seemingly goals to get into the enterprise of speech recognition and digital voice assistant. Finally, bettering such know-how might assist OpenAI compete with the likes of different voice merchandise comparable to Amazon’s Alexa.

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